Role in cybersecurity, person or entity that exploits vulnerabilities, impacting the safety or security of another entity.
1 On Wednesday Facebook said outage did not appear to be the result of a denial-of-service attack by a malicious actor .
2 In 2019, two weeks before Tampa's mayoral elections, the twitter account of the Mayor of Tampa, Bob Buckhorn, was compromised by a malicious actor .
3 As more devices get connected, malicious actors get an advantage.
4 Facebook closed the accounts and reported malicious actors tied to Russia to US law enforcement.
5 That was being used by " malicious actors " to scrape public profile information, it said.
6 Is it the case that the malicious actors will keep ahead of the rest of the community?
7 Malicious actors target "endpoints"-anydevice or sensor connected to a network-tobreak into that network.
8 And with those significant advancements, we also see malicious actors able to accomplish strategic impact with individual tactical actions.
9 We should not fear errors by the incompetent nearly as much as deliberate moves by highly competent malicious actors .
10 Opinion: While well intentioned, the law has too many loopholes for malicious actors and puts too little responsibility on platforms.
11 A Marine Corps order last summer described such sites as "a proven haven for malicious actors and content."
12 Getting topics to trend on Twitter can help a message spread online, making the section a battleground for malicious actors .
13 As they enact emergency business continuity plans, they and their staff are highly exposed to cyber threats and exploitation by malicious actors .
14 Since then, malicious actors have continued to set up Facebook pages and groups to exploit tragedies and news events, like mass shootings.
15 No one thing will protect a company entirely from malicious actors , but a combination of different measures can reduce the probability of attack.
16 The NSABB did so, but got the authors to omit key details that could allow their work to be copied by malicious actors .
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